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pl. of Child.

a day, a holiday having been voted by acclamation, an ordinary walk would not satisfy the children. Southey.

towards; as, filial, social, or conjugal affections; to have an affection for or towards children. All his affections are set on his own country. Macaulay.

cupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing or mirthful emotions; to divert. A group children amusing themselves with pushing stones from the top [of the cliff], and watching as they plunged into the lake. Gilpin.

To attribute a human form or personality to. You may see imaginative children every day anthropomorphizing. Lowell.

Having a round, broad face, like an apple. "Apple-faced children." Dickens.

oyment of means to accomplish an end; specific use. If a right course . . . be taken with children, there will not be much need of the application of the common rewards and punishments. Locke.

point them every one to his service. Num. iv. 19. These were cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them. Josh. xx. 9.

sion; readiness in learning; docility; as, an aptness to learn is more observable in some children than in others.

ve starch obtained from the rootstocks of Maranta arundinacea, and used as food, esp. for children an invalids; also, a similar starch obtained from other plants, as various species of Maranta and Curcuma.

cuckoopint of the English is an example. Our common arums the lords and ladies of village children. Lubbock.

in domestic animals; also commonly applied to the pinworm (Oxyuris), often troublesome to children and aged persons.

Profound debility of children due to lack of food and to unhygienic surroundings. --A*threp"tic (#), a.

sdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority of a court. Thus can the demigod, Authority, Make us pay down for our offense. Shak. By what authority doest thou these things Matt. xxi. 23.

A native nurse for children; also, a lady's maid. [India]

Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur. The babble of our young children. Darwin. The babble of the stream. Tennyson.

A doll for children. Spenser.

A place for children's dolls and dolls' furniture. Swift.

Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. Jer. iii. 14.

Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- She was barren of children. Bp. Hall.